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Title: Gettin


1
Gettin Stuck Its Mud Season in Vermont
  • By Tacia Eriksen
  • GEOL 196

2
Ahhh... Mud Season in Vermont
  • Vermont enjoys four official seasons each year,
    but also struggles through an additional bout
    with mud season, that persnickety period of time
    between winter thaw and spring growth when just
    about anything is liable to go wrong.
  • This image shows a muddy and rutted road.
  • There are a horse and buggy up the road in the
    distance.

Franklin LS06485
Mud Season in Vermont." Vermont Living
Vermont's Internet Magazine. 8 Jan. 2008
http//www.vtliving.com/mudseason/index.shtml
3
Horse and Buggy in Mud
  • Mud season is a unique time of year in Vermont,
    and there are many wonderful stories to be told
    of grapping with the muck, the mire, the dirt,
    and the sludge.
  • Vehicles get stuck, horses get stuck, people get
    stuck, and that is just the beginning.
  • This image shows a man and his horse and buggy on
    a very muddy road.
  • The wagon wheels and horses legs are deep in the
    mud.

Town Unknown LS05861
Horse and Buggy in Mud. 1913. Vermont State
Archives. Landscape Change Program. University of
Vermont. 10 Jan. 2008 http//www.uvm.edu/landscape
/search/details.php?ls05861sequence000set_seq
1imageSet1199994166-4786753620050AddRel
4
Buggy on a Muddy Road
  • Winter in Vermont officially begins at the winter
    solstice, which occurs on either December 21 or
    22, and ends at the spring equinox, around March
    21 or 22.
  • Toward the end of March, the winter season begins
    to lessen its grip on the state and patches of
    bare ground appear while precipitation turns from
    snow to rain.
  • This hand-colored lanternslide shows a horse and
    buggy on a muddy, washed-out road.

Town Unknown LS06477
The Weather and Climate of Vermont." Vermont
Geographic Alliance. 8 Jan. 2008
http//academics.smcvt.edu/vtgeographic/textbook/w
eather/weather_and_climate_of_vermont.htmmud20se
ason
5
Traveling on a Muddy Road
  • The rainy and wet transition from winter to
    spring is often referred to as mud season.
  • In the past, when the majority of the states
    roads were still dirt, mud season could bring
    travel to a standstill, schools would be forced
    to close until the roads dried out, vehicles,
    horses, and people alike would often become stuck
    in the mud.
  • This image shows a traveler in a buggy braving a
    gravel road with muddy tire ruts in it.

Franklin LS06482
The Weather and Climate of Vermont." Vermont
Geographic Alliance. 8 Jan. 2008
http//academics.smcvt.edu/vtgeographic/textbook/w
eather/weather_and_climate_of_vermont.htmmud20se
ason
6
Car on Muddy Road and Improved Road Later
Arlington LS06497_000
Arlington LS06497_001
  • These images depict the before and after effect
    of mud season on a road in Arlington, VT.
  • The improved road is wider than the old road.
  • The large tree on the left side in the before
    photograph is not present in the after image.
  • The improved road is not as muddy as the old
    road.

Improved Road. 1913. Vermont State Archives.
Landscape Change Program. University of Vermont.
10 Jan. 2008 http//www.uvm.edu/landscape/search/d
etails.php?ls06497sequence000set_seq1imageSe
t1199992603-47866f1bec850AddRel
7
Car Stuck in Mud
  • The Scenes of Vermont website lists this fond mud
    season memory from Liz Hurd on their Mud Stories
    page
  • Mud season is the time when everyone piles into
    someones car after school and we struggle to
    make it down the old dirt roads. Many times we
    have to get out and push allowing ourselves to be
    covered from head to toe with mud. All true
    Vermonters love mud season!
  • This hand-colored lanternslide shows a black car
    on a very muddy road.

Rutland LS06164
Hurd, Liz. "More Mud Stories From Vermont!"
Scenes of Vermont. 8 Jan. 2008 http//www.scenesof
vermont.com/mud2.htm
8
Car Stuck in Mud
  • Another fun story, this one from Mike Allen,
    depicts car keys being lost in the mud after the
    driver of a stuck vehicle exited through the
    cars window, since the car was buried in mud up
    to the bottom of the doors.
  • This hand-colored lanternslide shows a black car
    stuck in a very muddy road.

Rutland LS06466
Allen, Mike. "More Mud Stories From Vermont!"
Scenes of Vermont. 8 Jan. 2008 http//www.scenesof
vermont.com/mud2.htm
9
Car Stuck in Mud
  • Dairy farmer Charles Keeler of Brookfield states
  • You can plow snow, but not mud. Theres not much
    you can do about mud except wait for it to go
    away. The only thing to do is add gravel 18
    inches is a pretty good surface but mud season
    occurs before the town gravel pit melts out.
  • This image shows a car stuck in the mud on a
    rural dirt road.

Town Unknown LS09432
OReilly, Jane. "In Vermont Mind Over Mud." Time
Magazine. 10 May 1982. 8 Jan. 2008
http//www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,9
25357-2,00.html
10
Road Curving Around Rock Outcropping
  • The Green Mountain Club, with headquarters in
    Waterbury Center, VT both advertises and cautions
    against outdoor activities during mud season.
  • On their website, mud season is listed as April
    15 through the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.
  • This image shows a muddy road curving around a
    rock outcropping.

Town Unknown LS06505
"Mud Season Hikes." Green Mountain Club. 8 Jan.
2008 http//www.greenmountainclub.org/page.php?id
60
11
Dirt Road Through Forest
  • The GMC also asks people to help protect the
    fragile alpine tundra and prevent soil erosion by
    staying off the trails during Mud Season, while
    further cautioning about specific popular hiking
    trails, stating the sensitive alpine vegetation
    on the summits of Mt. Mansfield and Camels Hump
    are most vulnerable to damage.
  • This image shows a dirt road running through a
    forest, with several muddy tire ruts lining the
    road.

Stockbridge LS06559
"Mud Season Hikes." Green Mountain Club. 8 Jan.
2008 http//www.greenmountainclub.org/page.php?id
60
12
Wagon on Side of Dirt Road
  • Some mud season hiking guidelines the GMC does
    offer include
  • Walk through the mud, not around it.
  • Hike in the lower-elevation hardwood forest with
    southern exposure.
  • Avoid the spruce-fir forests at higher
    elevations.
  • This image shows a wagon on the side of a muddy
    dirt road which runs through a forest with rocky
    outcrops and large bounders.

Stockbridge LS06570
"Mud Season Hikes." Green Mountain Club. 8 Jan.
2008 http//www.greenmountainclub.org/page.php?id
60
13
Person on Muddy Road
  • The Vermont Vacations website depicts Vermonts
    famed mud season, as passing quickly as the
    hills turn to green.
  • This image shows a person working on the side of
    a muddy, spring road.
  • There are patches of snow and trees along the
    side of the road and a sludgy gully forming
    toward the front of the image.

Town Unknown LS09434
Spring in Vermont." Vermont Vacation the
Official State of Vermont Tourism Site. 8 Jan.
2008 http//www.vermontvacation.com/seasons/spring
.asp
14
A Muddy Street Beside Pittsburgh Paints
  • In a Time Magazine article titled, In Vermont
    Mind over Mud, Postman Julian Hill, who drives
    63 miles a day on his rural delivery route,
    states detours add five miles in mud season.
  • This image shows a woman pushing a child in a
    baby carriage across a muddy street next to
    Pittsburgh Paints in Springfield, VT.

Springfield LS10415
O'Reilly, Jane. "In Vermont Mind Over Mud." Time
Magazine. 10 May 1982. 8 Jan. 2008
http//www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,9
25357-2,00.html
15
Park in Town Center
  • The Vermonters Vermont Blog describes mud season
    as that most wonderful time of year in
    Vermont, when there is not much anything that
    anyone can doexcept to wait for the ground to
    dry up enough for the towns to grade the road.
  • This image shows the Woodstock town green
    surrounded by dirt roads and houses.
  • The dirt street travels from the foreground at
    center and splits around the circular green.

Woodstock LS07759
"Mud Season in Vermont and Other Dirty Deeds."
Vermonter's Vermont Blog. 14 Mar. 2006. 8 Jan.
2008 http//www.vermonter.com/vtpress/?p21
16
Farm Plowing in Spring
  • This picturesque excerpt, from Chris Bohjalians
    Midwives A Novel, details the correlation
    between maple sugaring and mud season
  • the mud was a nightmare that year, but the
    sugaring was amazing. Thats often the case. If
    the mud is bad, the maple will be good, because
    mud and maple are meteorological cousins of a
    sort. The kind of weather that turns dirt roads
    in Vermont into quicksand in March a frigid,
    snowy winter, followed by a spring with warm days
    and cold, cold nights also inspires maple trees
    to produce sap that is sweet and plentiful and
    runs like the rivers swollen by melted snow and
    ice.
  • This image shows a farmer plowing his field the
    old fashioned way with draft horses and a walking
    plow.

Corinth LS09159
"Vermont Only Maple and Mud Season." Vermont
Only. 8 Jan. 2008 http//www.vtonly.com/loremar9.h
tm
17
Tractor Pulling Car
  • To conclude, mud season is
  • That time of year when the simple task of making
    it home after a day at work becomes a challenge.
  • When the oft scoffed at, jacked-up,
    four-wheel-drive trucks, with tires bigger than
    cars become the most viable means of
    transportation, sometimes the only means of
    travel able to pass Vermonts rural dirt roads.
  • This image shows a tractor pulling a car out of
    the mud on a rural dirt road.

Town Unknown LS09433
Mud Season in Vermont." Vermont Living
Vermont's Internet Magazine. 8 Jan. 2008
http//www.vtliving.com/mudseason/index.shtml
18
The End
  • All images in this presentation may be accessed
    by typing in the LS number underneath each image
    in the quick search field at http//www.uvm.edu/la
    ndscape

Town Unknown LS11685_001
19
Works Cited
  1. Allen, Mike. "More Mud Stories from Vermont!"
    Scenes of Vermont. 8 Jan. 2008 lthttp//www.sceneso
    fvermont.com/mud2.htmgt.
  2. Bohjalian, Christopher A. Midwives a Novel. 1st
    Ed. ed. New York Harmony Books, 1997.
  3. Hurd, Liz. "More Mud Stories From Vermont!"
    Scenes of Vermont. 8 Jan. 2008 lthttp//www.sceneso
    fvermont.com/mud2.htmgt.
  4. "Mud Season Hikes." Green Mountain Club. 8 Jan.
    2008 lthttp//www.greenmountainclub.org/page.php?id
    60gt.
  5. "Mud Season in Vermont and Other Dirty Deeds."
    Vermonter's Vermont Blog. 14 Mar. 2006. 8 Jan.
    2008 lthttp//www.vermonter.com/vtpress/?p21gt.
  6. "Mud Season in Vermont." Vermont Living
    Vermont's Internet Magazine. 8 Jan. 2008
    lthttp//www.vtliving.com/mudseason/index.shtmlgt.
  7. O'Reilly, Jane. "In Vermont Mind Over Mud." Time
    Magazine. 10 May 1982. 8 Jan. 2008
    lthttp//www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,
    925357-2,00.htmlgt.
  8. Sherman, Michael, Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey
    Potash. Freedom and Unity a History of Vermont.
    Barre, Vt Vermont Historical Society, 2004. 619.
  9. "Spring in Vermont." Vermont Vacation the
    Official State of Vermont Tourism Site. 8 Jan.
    2008 lthttp//www.vermontvacation.com/seasons/sprin
    g.aspgt.
  10. "The Weather and Climate of Vermont." Vermont
    Geographic Alliance. 8 Jan. 2008
    lthttp//academics.smcvt.edu/vtgeographic/textbook/
    weather/weather_and_climate_of_vermont.htmmud20s
    easongt.
  11. "Vermont Only Maple and Mud Season." Vermont
    Only. 8 Jan. 2008 lthttp//www.vtonly.com/loremar9.
    htmgt.
  12. Improved Road. 1913. Vermont State Archives.
    Landscape Change Program. University of Vermont.
    10 Jan. 2008 lthttp//www.uvm.edu/landscape/search/
    details.php?ls06497sequence000set_seq1imageS
    et1199992603-47866f1bec850AddRelgt.
  13. Horse and Buggy in Mud. 1913. Vermont State
    Archives. Landscape Change Program. University of
    Vermont. 10 Jan. 2008 lthttp//www.uvm.edu/landscap
    e/search/details.php?ls05861sequence000set_seq
    1imageSet1199994166-4786753620050AddRelgt.
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